Subject: Re: 1.3: "Missing operating system"
To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/09/1998 20:23:48
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 06:36:41PM +0100, Olaf Seibert wrote:
> Another thing, this weekend I upgraded another machine from 1.2.1 to
> 1.3. It turned out the "install from unmounted partition" was different
> from what I expected. It *was* mounted by the time it tried to mount it
> again, causing lots of trouble. And no way to go back to pick another
> option.  And it already had modified the disk by that time.

This happened to me as well.  I didn't expect the installer to mount all
disks on the system - only / and /usr or something like that.

  -jm